In the Egg and Other Poems

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. xi, 143. Orange cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by Günter Grass. Bilingual edition, with Grass's original German text printed en face Michael Hamburger's and Christopher Middleton's English translations. Usual light sunning to dust jacket spine, scattered foxing to flaps, else Fine.

A collection encompassing Selected Poems (1966) [poems originally appearing in Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (1956) and Gleisdreieck (1960)], and New Poems (1968), originally published under the title Ausgefragt (1967).

Informed by the same baroque inventiveness and mordant wit that characterize his celebrated prose works, Grass's poems depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. By the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.